Foxxy Music

A cabaret show featuring b-ball shorts and a Pope's miter.

I don't know about you, but it's rare for me to walk into
any building in Spokane to see a guy in three-foot tall Pope's miter
and basketball shorts, calling himself Pope Diddy. Especially on a
Sunday.

Or to see a young man, dressed head to toe in
black, talking to a shrunken head. Or to see a guy in a blood-splattered
shirt, casually sipping a Miller Light listening as a negligee-clad
young woman calls for her sausages.

If these are common
occurrences in your world - well, you're probably a part of the show.

All of that, plus much, much, much more makes up Saturday night's Foxxy
Moron and the Sexxy Revolution show - a cabaret revue of singing,
dancing, music puke, pasties, booze and blood.

We were
innocently typing away one day when a hot-pink flyer for this
performance-art nightmare came marching across our desks, promising a
night of topless dog grooming, free hunchback rides and pope
ventriloquism.

Our reaction: Where, when and how can we
ride a hunchback?

Turns out the Foxxy Moron show is the opus
of some of Spokane's finest, with members of Burns Like Hellfire, TFL
and Velvet Pelvis at the reins. Some of the ideas are old jokes; some
came from the brains of the late Dan Ellis. Most are just sick and
twisted ways to get an audience to laugh, to mix up Spokane's nightlife
and simply to gross people out.

All of it - the puke, the
shrunken heads and sausages - is just a way to see people in Spokane
turn out for something other than a boring old local concert.

"We just thought, 'What's the stupidest thing we could actually pull
off?" Bart Templeman, aka Foxxy Moron, says. "It's like, how do you get
people to respond in this town?"

Over the years, Templeman
and his friends cooked up this show as they bitched about Spokane's
stagnant nightlife scene. They told their friends, who told their
friends. Slowly more people jumped on the idea, contributing their
singing voices, instruments and impeccable gag reflexes to the show.
With a cast of nearly 25 people, the Foxxy Moron show is everything you
won't see on your average Friday night. Actually, it'll be unlike
anything you've ever seen before.

"We'll knock [you] off
your blocks with sheer weirdness and hammer so much beer down [your]
throats," he says. "People can have the time they've been wanting to
have for 25 years."

Whatever. We just want to ride a
hunchback.

Foxxy Moron and the
Sexxy Revolution Cabaret Show appear on Saturday, July 2, at 9 pm at the
B-Side. Tickets: $5. Call 624-7638.